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A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

Nissan Motor Co. logged a net loss of 670.90 billion yen ($4.5 billion) for fiscal 2024 as it continues to grapple with poor ...

A pupil at a prestigious national elementary school in Tokyo quit the school this year after being the victim of bullying, a ...

An object believed to be an unexploded wartime bomb was discovered on a Hiroshima University campus in western Japan, police ...

Japan's rice prices fell for the first time in 18 weeks to 4,214 yen ($28.50) per 5 kilograms, the government said Monday, ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp. said Monday it will sell a liquid crystal display panel plant in central Japan, once ...

Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...